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Just a short note on Leeds cc v Price (LSC intervening) [2011] EWHC 849 (QB) because it isn't a housing case at all. It's the costs fall-out from Price v Leeds CC [2006] UKHL 10; [2006] 2 A.C. 465 (the other case with Kay v LB Lambeth). You'll remember that...
Two interesting points were decided by the Court of Appeal in Murphy v Wyatt: Where there is an agreement permitting a mobile home to be stationed on land which does not have planning permission for use as a caravan site (and therefore does not have a site...
Hat tip to Legal Action's Recent Developments in Housing Law for letting us know about this one. Westlea Housing Association v Price, Swindon County Court, 20 & 21 Jan 2011 An ASB possession case, successfully defended at least partly on the basis that...
We've heard of a couple of County Court proportionality defence decisions since Pinnock. but none in enough detail to report. One of those is, apparently, headed to appeal, so maybe more then. But we've now had sight of a full judgment in a County Court case...
Hat tip to Legal Action 'Recent Developments in Housing Law' for this one. Watford Community Housing Trust v Personal Representatives of Elizabeth Chalmers, Watford County Court 14 January 2011 This was a possession claim under Ground 9 Schedule 2 Housing...
The LAG Defending Possession Proceedings (7th Edition), a book which is surely in every housing practitioner's library, has received an update to cover Pinnock and Powell, public law and proportionality defences. The free update can be downloaded here.
Nearly Legal was brought up with chickens (not by chickens - a vital distinction. No poultry played a parental role at all. Oh no). After decades, and not a little intensive therapy, the metaphorical, if not the literal, scars seemed to have faded. Immersed...
Grant Shapps has given A statement to Inside Housing on his view of the impact of Pinnock v Manchester and Powell v Hounslow on the plans for flexible tenancies. The short answer is not a lot. He points to the 'exceptional case' provision and the presumption...
The Mayor of London (Greater London Authority) v Haw & Ors [2011] EWHC 585 (QB) You may remember that there has been some previous litigation (the most crucial of which we reported on here) between the Mayor of London and various persons protesting on or...
Carmarthenshire CC v Lewis [2010] EWCA Civ 1567 Another tug of the forelock to 'Recent developments in housing law' in Legal Action for this one, apparently unreported elsewhere. [Update 14/03/11 - we've had a message from Carmarthenshire on this case, see...
Katana & Anor v Catalyst Communities Housing [2010] EWCA Civ 630 A slight oddity of a case, an application for permission to appeal, not strictly a housing matter, despite the Respondent. But it is of interest in the way it deals with tenancies at will CCH...
Forgive the slight delay, but DCLG published their summary of responses to their Consultation on Local Decisions: A Fairer Future for Social Housing (which we discussed here) on 28 Feb. The outcome of the consultation appears to be, um, full steam ahead on...